Have you heard the good word? @sequentialscholars.bsky.social has started a new unit on Absolute Wonder Woman! #WonderWoman #ComicsStudies

Statement on AI and Assessment The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in February 2026.The purpose of assessmen...

The Modern Language Association's Statement on AI and Assessment, approved February 2026: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... #ComicsStudies

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

🚨Tomorrow 5pm BST: A free webinar on comics as scholarship: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/ hosted by @paulaclemente.bsky.social, feat @labarren.cpesr.fr, @wilkinsp.bsky.social & yours truly. Hope you can join us. #ComicsStudies

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

This Wednesday! Join us for a @comicsgrid.com webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge.

📅 Wednesday 01 April 2026 (5-6:30pm GMT)

More info and registration here: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/

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Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social looks at the endless ending of Calvin and Hobbes. #ComicsStudies

The final Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, in which the title character encounters fresh snow in the woods and hop on their sled, as Calvin enthusiastically declares, “Let’s go exploring!”

Many successful comic strips continue indefinitely. But Bill Watterson’s final #CalvinAndHobbes comic strip appeared in newspapers on December 31st, 1995, concluding a 10-year run. Some fans & critics have struggled to let go. Others argue the strip’s ending is perfectly endless. 1/12 #ComicsStudies

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks Calvin and Hobbes x ART (high + low). #ComicsStudies #CalvinAndHobbes

Calvin walks past statues in an art gallery remarking, “this is supposed to be great art.”

Many “Calvin and Hobbes” strips comment on the nature of art, evoking both “high art” and the supposedly opposite “low art” of comics. These moments of self-reflexivity showcase public perceptions of comics and/as art during a time of upheaval & change in American comics. 1/12 #ComicsStudies

The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels: Culture, Form and Context, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith and Paul Levitz (2023), 3rd ed. | Intellect Review of: The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels: Culture, Form and Context, Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith and Paul Levitz (2023), 3rd ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 392 pp., ISBN 978-1-35025-389-...

My review of the 3rd edition of The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels for Studies in Comics is now live! #comicsstudies doi.org/10.1386/stic...

Join us to discuss past present and future of graphic scholarship! Feat @wilkinsp.bsky.social @labarren.cpesr.fr @ernestopriego.com @paulaclemente.bsky.social #ComicsStudies

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks the art of cartooning in Calvin and Hobbes. #ComicsStudies

Die Deadline wurde verlängert 🥳 bis 1. April können noch Vorschläge/Abstracts eingereicht werden. #ComFor26 #Comicforschung #Comics #ComicsStudies ⬇️

The Comics Grid Webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here Figure: Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual A...

🚨Event alert!🚨 Join us for a @comicsgrid.com webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge.

📅 Wednesday 01 April 2026 (5-6:30pm GMT)

More info and registration here: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/

#ComicsStudies

A Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip in which the title characters careen through the woods on their wagon while Calvin monologues about choices and chain reactions. The strip concludes with the characters crashing in a lake after soaring over a cliff.

The writing of “Calvin and Hobbes” can be compelling & funny all on its own. But Bill Watterson’s skillful cartooning brings the comic to life. These talents are on full display in this classic Sunday strip featuring Calvin and Hobbes careening through the woods on their wagon. 1/12 #ComicsStudies

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks solitude in Calvin and Hobbes. #ComicsStudies #CalvinAndHobbes

Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality This paper revisits the long-standing ‘Asterix controversy’ in Poland surrounding Janusz Christa’s Kajko and Kokosz, often accused of plagiarizing René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix. Using Géra...

“Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality” by Aleksander Bednarski: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Distorted Reflections: Identity and the Fact/Fiction Divide in Chuck Palahniuk’s<em> Fight Club 2</em> (2015) Graphic biographical fiction often blurs the lines between fact and fiction, which renders it a powerful medium for exploring the fluidity of identity. Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 (2015), the graph...

Two new articles published in @comicsgrid.com 👇

1) “Distorted Reflections: Identity and the Fact/Fiction Divide in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 (2015)” by Imane Ghebache: doi.org/10.16995/cg....

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Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality This paper revisits the long-standing ‘Asterix controversy’ in Poland surrounding Janusz Christa’s Kajko and Kokosz, often accused of plagiarizing René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s Asterix. Using Géra...

Also new today in the journal: Bednarski, A., (2026) “Janusz Christa’s 'Kajko and Kokosz' and ‘the Asterix Controversy’ Through the Lens of Gérard Genette’s Transtextuality ” doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... cc @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks flexible realities in Calvin and Hobbes. #ComicsStudies #CalvinAndHobbes

Neuer Lehrstuhl an Stuttgarter Hochschule: Barbara Yelin wird Deutschlands erste Comic-Professorin Die Künstlerin Barbara Yelin ist für ihre Arbeit vielfach ausgezeichnet worden. Ab Sommer übernimmt sie eine Professur für Comics und Comicforschung an der Stuttgarter Merz-Akademie.

www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...

Congratulations!!

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Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social looks at the many comics influences on Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes! #ComicsStudies #CalvinAndHobbes

Das sind sehr - sehr! - gute und schöne Neuigkeiten! #comicforschung #comicsstudies #comics #graphicnarratives ⬇️

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social offers an intro to Calvin and Hobbes, the start of a whole bunch of C & H goodness! #ComicsStudies #CalvinAndHobbes

On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...

Cfr. Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg..... #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies

Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em> This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...

New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social

Holding the book "Narratives of Nostalgia and Repair in American Comics and Literature" by Aanchal Vij in front of a meadow with blue flowers

Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Our next @sequentialscholars.bsky.social unit will be talking Calvin and Hobbes!! #ComicsStudies

<em>Baddawi </em>and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq This interview with Palestinian American comics artist Leila Abdelrazaq explores her acclaimed graphic novel Baddawi (2015) and her broader creative practice as a visual storyteller of diasporic and i...

New interview @comicsgrid.com! Scott, B. L., (2026) “Baddawi and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... - powered by @openlibhums.org @janewayolh.bsky.social! #ComicsStudies #openaccess

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social explores the significance of names in Naoki Urasawa's "Monster." #ComicsStudies #Manga